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[quote=Anonymous]Good grades and test scores really depends on where you are talking.  At the Ivy League teams there is the Academic Index which mandates the number of players they can accept that must be within 1, 2, 3 or 4 standard deviations from the mean Academic Index of their students.  This calculation is weighted toward test scores.  Also each school is calculated differently so Harvard's numbers will be higher than Cornell typically.  You could spend a lot of time calculating this but the reality is if an Ivy program is interested in your player they will do the calculation.

Upper end D3 programs seem to have a number of slots and a minimum calculation of GPA and board scores.  Somewhere around 3.9 weighted and 34 or 1550 would put you top Academic Index for all Ivy and "acceptable" at every D3 including Williams, Chicago, Amherst or MIT. The sense we got from some of the players who went other NESCAC or upper end Centennial was somewhere around 3.4 and 30 would work.  Centennial has Johns Hopkins as most selective but they are also typically the best team athletically as  well.  Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Dickinson in that conference as well.  Each will make "adjustments" to typical admission criteria.

If your talent level is really FBS or FCS then there seems to be even more flexibility in admission.  But you better be really good.  If you're a current junior you probably know if this is you by now.  The number of kids who are top end Ivy academic and top end FBS athletic are very very few.

You also get into different calculations for D2 schools which are scholarship schools but can give academic scholarships as well.  So to give a rough answer good grades and scores begins somewhere around the top 20% of your graduating class and moves upward.  The schools really just want to make sure you're not likely to fail.  they make a significant investment in the players even if it's non-scholarship and really don't want academic problems once admitted.  It ends up being a very personalized process particularly at the truly top level D3 schools.  You will get plenty of feedback along the way to help.  Sift through it carefully.[/quote]

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